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OTM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Translating XPath Queries into SPARQL Queries
Abstract The W3C has developed XPath [3] as a query language for XML data. XPath is embedded in many other languages like XQuery and XSLT. The name of XPath derives from its basic ...
Matthias Droop, Markus Flarer, Jinghua Groppe, Sve...
EDBT
2009
ACM
85views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Recursion in XQuery: put your distributivity safety belt on
We introduce a controlled form of recursion in XQuery, an inflationary fixed point operator, familiar from the context of relational databases. This operator imposes restriction...
Loredana Afanasiev, Torsten Grust, Maarten Marx, J...
LICS
1999
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Counting and Addition Cannot Express Deterministic Transitive Closure
An important open question in complexity theory is whether the circuit complexity class TC0 is (strictly) weaker than LOGSPACE. This paper considers this question from the viewpoi...
Matthias Ruhl
ICDT
2003
ACM
121views Database» more  ICDT 2003»
14 years 25 days ago
Deciding Termination of Query Evaluation in Transitive-Closure Logics for Constraint Databases
We study extensions of first-order logic over the reals with different types of transitive-closure operators as query languages for constraint databases that can be described by...
Floris Geerts, Bart Kuijpers
ICALP
2009
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Decidability of the Guarded Fragment with the Transitive Closure
We consider an extension of the guarded fragment in which one can guard quantiers using the transitive closure of some binary relations. The obtained logic captures the guarded fr...
Jakub Michaliszyn